I have a divine mission to take care of the wonderful body God gave me.
In this blog I relate my experience and trials in getting myself fit and healthy once again, while incorporating a gluten-free and dairy-free diet into my life.

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Thursday, August 4, 2016

July Book Reviews

July--Dewey 700!

The books I checked out
were about art, design, crafts, and more. I have a pile of knitting books I've
thumbed through, looking for a pattern for my next project. I think I have the
idea of what I want to do. I just need to work out some details--and finish the
one I'm on!

I got off on a real
fiction tangent--maybe it's just summer reading! However, I have been
reading Dreaming Green.

As you can tell from the picture on the front, this is
not a book about cheap-looking recycled junk.
Sometimes when I see how cleverly they use "distressed" stuff
on HGTV, I find it amusing. Put that distressed stuff in a rich home and it is
decorative. Put it in my home and it
will just look like more old stuff. It's all a matter of perspective and
comparison.

At any rate, the photographs and explanations in this
book show that eco-decor can be absolutely fabulous. I suspect that using
reclaimed wood and sustainable forests may be more expensive than building the
usual way, but that's not the focus of this book.

The focus here is on what you can do to build or
decorate an eco-friendly house, either using reclaimed and recycled materials,
designing for the best energy conservation, or both. I believe the earth is a gift, and while
meant to be used, it should also be maintained and preserved for the future.

I think it's a bit like farming, especially the old
way. You plant and harvest seed, but you don't eat or sell it all; you save
some for seed for next year. If you don't do that, you cannot sustain yourself
and support others. I am not about
stopping housing development for some rare tiny insect, but I am about taking
care of what we have and carrying it forward for future generations. If we use
up the earth, what are we leaving for our descendants? That is the question to ponder as we fill our
landfills, drive our cars, choose between oven, toaster oven, or stovetop, and
choose light bulbs and toilet paper, and more.

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